Solvable senescence model with positive mutations.

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We build upon our previous analytical results for the Penna model of senescence to include positive mutations. We investigate whether a small but nonzero positive mutation rate gives qualitatively different results to the traditional Penna model in which no positive mutations are considered. We find that the high-lifespan tail of the distribution is radically changed in structure, but that there is not much...

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